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> How long until it’s open season on hunting them. In 2011, the subgroup had 39 members. Yes, let's go hunt a sentient, intelligent species trying to protect t
by areoform 3y ago
> How long until it’s open season on hunting them.
In 2011, the subgroup had 39 members. Yes, let's go hunt a sentient, intelligent species trying to protect themselves and their young to extinction; forever losing their intelligence and culture.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27770983/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27770983/
- tgv 3y ago[flagged]
- multiplegeorges 3y ago> Literally nothing of value will be lost. Shockingly small-minded thing to say.
- tgv 3y agoI knew people were going to react like that, but tell me: what value is there in the primitive, inscrutable culture of a tiny group? That kind of thing gets lost all the time. Every time a school class graduates, their tiny culture dissolves. I'll repeat that I'm against hunting them, but that's because they are sentient and intelligent.
- omniglottal 3y agoPrecisely the same rationale can be applied to you. When you figure out why your inscrutable culture has any perceptible value, apply that reasoning outside your intentionally-narrowed values system. Recognize that the culture has not truly dissolved - it's merely your recognition thereof which has. What value is there in the advanced, inscrutable culture of a large group?
- tgv 3y ago* So you can't tell. * Our culture isn't inscrutable. You're part of it. You understand it. * But is it the culture that makes you oppose killing people? Or whales? Chickens have no culture, certainly not factory farmed ones. Killing them is fine? Pigs? Cows? Solitary humans?
- chmod775 3y agoI wonder if this is what a hypothetical alien civilization may think of us: If we blow it up and build a hyperspace bypass through it, nothing of value will be lost.
- LgWoodenBadger 3y agoI don't know if GP was serious, but that's the typical human (or maybe just US) response to things like shark-attacks: kill them all. It's awful, but I wouldn't be surprised. Even in 2023 humans are generally awful.
- highstep 3y agodon't worry, we'll be gone soon and some sort of life on earth will go on
- AHOHA 3y agoI remember seeing a video of a mother whale thanking sailors by bringing some food after they freed her kid from a fishing net. I believe if we actually start killing those intelligent creatures, we will severely off balance the ocean!
- Haga 3y ago[dead]